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Define the word Iambus

"Iambus" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"

Iambus \I*am"bus\, n.; pl. L. Iambi, E. Iambuses. [L.
   iambus, Gr. ?; prob. akin to ? to throw, assail (the iambus
   being first used in satiric poetry), and to L. jacere to
   throw. Cf. Jet a shooting forth.] (Pros.)
   A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one,
   as in [a^]m[=a]ns, or of an unaccented syllable followed by
   an accented one, as invent; an iambic. See the Couplet under
   Iambic, n.
   [1913 Webster]

"iambus" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

iambus
     n : a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables [syn: iamb]